Westminster Christian School senior Stella Hamann is eligible to vote in the 2024 election. She wanted to make sure other students who are eligible learned about their rights, so she conducted a voter registration drive called Vote for Change, Your Voice Matters. “I registered almost 200 students at my school to vote,” she says. Hamann
Six years ago, Westminster Christan School senior Dylan Maier and her brother Devin started a club called Connect4Cancer. She took over the reins as president when her brother graduated two years ago. “We help kids fighting cancer,” she says. “We make visits to Ronald McDonald House. We usually do arts and crafts with them and
Gulliver Prep senior Sophia Bonanno spent weeks contacting Indigenous tribes within the continental U.S. to create a database called Beyond Land Acknowledgment. It’s a listing of tribal, statewide and national organizations, about 380 in total. The goal is to actualize support for Indigenous communities by encouraging attendees of events with land acknowledgements to directly support
Miami Palmetto High School senior Sydney Oren is Palmetto’s Silver Knight nominee in the Vocational-Technical category. Silver Knight nominees stand out not only for their academics but for their commitment to community service. Oren has approximately a thousand community service hours. Her Silver Knight Project is her own initiative called Supply Squad. “It works to
Westminster Christian School senior Nina Valdes is vice president of the organization Cooking for a Cause. She and President Carli Schmidt did a recent fundraiser, collecting gift cards from Publix to give the teen moms attending Dorothy M. Wallace Cope Center a chance to enhance their cooking skills for not only themselves but for their